What Are Illusions?
Everything in this world can be said to be a mirage –an illusion that has been temporarily given life through the attention of the conscious beings who have co-created or created this world.
So when you create—or come to believe –an illusion that you think is real and you think is the real you, you endow that illusion with life through your attention and through the light that streams through it.
This does not make the illusion real, but it does give it a temporary life in time and space.
You can overcome an illusion only through the total release from that illusion.
And that release can happen only when the illusion itself—and the self that you have built from that illusion—is allowed to die.
Then the illusion must be replaced by the corresponding truth of Christ.
The basic illusion which governs the Earth is the illusion of separation.
All other illusions stem from this one.
eg.
- I am separated from God and all others.
- I am a separate individual who is not linked to others through the collective consciousness.
- I am a separate being that is cut off from God and set apart from other people.
- I am separated from God’s abundant life.
- Any part of God’s creation is separated from the whole.
- One individual is independent of other individuals.
- I am separated from God and I cannot reach him on my own.
- God is far away from me instead of inside of me.
- I am separated from the River of life.
- The material universe is separated from God.
- God has abandoned the Earth.
- God does not have the power to consume the imperfections on this planet.
- God is not found in the material universe.
- I am separated from God by an impenetrable barrier.
- I am separated from Divine Love.
- God’s creation is separated from its Creator.
- Human beings can create something that is separated from the rest of God’s creation.
- I am a separate being who is all alone in a material universe in which everything and everyone is hostile to me.
- God is not where I am.
- God is a never-changing being.
- I can know God through my intellect / senses.
- God’s love is conditional.
- God loves some people more than others.
- My love is not worthy.
- God will not love me if I have less or achieve less than others.
- I am not worthy.
- I should not allow God’s Love to flow through me unless certain outer conditions are met.
- My happiness , joy and fulfilment depend on other people or conditions on Earth.
- I am not loveable.
- God cannot or will not take care of my needs.
- Lack, sufferings and limitations are unavoidable.
- God is non-forgiving.
- God is unfair.
- God is to blame.
- God is a dictator who wants to limit my creativity and take away my free will.
- God should not have given me free will.
- God’s will is separate from my will.
- Free will is dangerous.
- I cannot know God’s will on Earth.
- The only way to make free choices is to go against God’s will.
- Following God’s will means I have to give up my free will.
- I have no right to express and act upon God’s will on Earth.
- God is blaming me for the choices I’ve made.
- I can never rise above my mistakes.
- Once I’ve made a mistake, I am forever condemned to be less.
- Because I’ve made mistakes in the past, I am not worthy to enter God’s Kingdom.
- I have lost my original purity by making mistakes in this world.
- I need to be perfect before I can serve God in this world.
- My problems are caused by other people.
- God will not receive me if I turn back to him.
- Some people are better than others.
- Some people are more superior than others.
- I am unworthy to be the son / daughter of God.
- The kingdom of God is outside of me.
- God’s Kingdom cannot be manifested on Earth.
- The material universe is a prison from which there is no escape.
- Human beings are sinful by nature, and were conceived in sin and everything they do is a sin.
- People are inherently irresponsible, flawed and evil.
- I don’t need to take responsibility for my own life.
- People are a threat and must be controlled.
- I can commit a sin that cannot be undone.
- There is no right or wrong.
- My actions don’t have consequences and if something feels good, it couldn’t be wrong.
- It is necessary to escape restrictions and do what feels good at the moment.
- I can gain an advantage by raising up my separate self in comparisons to other separate people.
- It is possible to gain something by taking it through force.
- Human beings are a law unto themselves.
- I have no accountability and others are to blame for my choices.
- When I take physical action, I can escape the consequences of that action.
- If I let my ego die, I will be all alone and have no one to help me make decisions.
- It is possible to perfect the ego and make it acceptable in the eyes of God.
- If all people agree , they must be right and can force God to change his laws.
- Ultimate freedom can be found only by going against God’s law.
- Freedom is dangerous and must be restricted through control.
- We cannot govern ourselves.
- I am a victim of forces beyond my control.
- God has given the Earth to the devil and thus I have no right to interfere with his plans.
- God wants to create a perfect Kingdom that never changes.
- I cannot be MORE in this world.
- I don’t need to follow God’s law of constant growth and self-transcendence but everything can and should stay the same.
- The world will always be limited and can never manifest perfection.
- The imperfect conditions on Earth are unavoidable or beyond change.
- The future is limited by the past.
- The imperfections in this world can never be transformed into God’s perfection.
- The Earth can never rise above its current limitations.
- I have to accept my current limitations.
- My current limitations are God’s punishment for my sins.
- Nothing is really wrong.
- Life is a struggle.
- Darkness has power.
- Diversity cannot bring peace.
- Some problems have no solutions.
- Problems will go away if I ignore them.
- The dark forces have such control over this world that no person can challenge them.
- Evil is the opposite of God.
- Salvation is a separate, automatic process.
- There is nothing I can do to work out my own salvation.
- I need an outer Saviour.
- Only some people are meant to be saved.
- I will be saved when I attain complete control over the world.
- Human beings are inherently evil or sinful and they must be saved through force.
- A small elite has the power to save or condemn me.
- Only a small elite can communicate with God. eg. the Pope.
- I can be saved only through an outer organization .
- I will be saved by being a good Christian –in an outer sense , by following outer rules.
- I need an outer religion to reach God.
- I know best and must save people from them selves.
- The forces of this world know better than God how people should be saved.
- I cannot be complete in myself.
- I need something from this world in order to be whole.
- There is only one true religion.
- Jesus was the only Son of God—and it is blasphemy for me to follow in his footsteps and do the works that he did.
- Jesus was the only person who could manifest his Christhood.
- If I manifest my Christhood , I interfere with the free will of others.
- I must choose between relative good and relative evil and there is no middle ground.
- Love is a passive, possessive force.
- Oneness with God means the loss of my individuality.
- One person cannot make a difference and thus there is no point in trying to challenge other people.
- I should let other people live their lives without challenging their beliefs.
- I need to pay back those who have hurt me.
- I am here to do something for God and if I do enough and do the right things, God will have to accept the mortal self.
- It is blasphemy for me to call myself a son / daughter of God, because Jesus is the ONLY Son of God.
- Revenge is necessary and justified.
- It is necessary to kill people to create peace.
- It is necessary to do evil that good may come.
- The ends justify the means.
- The ultimate way to bring peace is to kill those who threaten peace.
- Killing others is the only way to make my idea, my belief system survive.
- Killing our enemies bring us rewards in heaven.
- War or violence is inevitable.
- This planet has only limited resources.
- By freely giving to all life what I have freely received from God —I could lose something.
- There is a limit to how much God can give to me or do through me.
- The laws of God the Father restrict my creative freedom.
- Life is restricted by the imperfections on Earth.
- I am alive just to fulfil my own needs and leave the Earth as I found it.
- I can never rise above my current state of consciousness.
- I need something from this world in order to be Who I Am, in order to be whole.
- I have no right to be the Christ on Earth.
- I can act without using God’s light.
- Matter has power of my physical body.
- Matter has power over me–my Spiritual being.
- We only have one lifetime on planet Earth.
- Death means loss, death is the end.
- What is hidden from men is also hidden from God.
